Quiz 275: The answers

Here are this week's answers, question-by-question. Scroll down for a bonus cryptic question.

1. What was The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy's Arthur Dent always dressed in?

1. His team's football strip
2. Correct answer: Dressing gown and pyjamas
3. Jogging suit
4. Spaceman's outfit
5. Clown fancy dress

2. What was the name of the gossip in Still Game who lived on the same floor as Jack and Victor?

1. Jeannie
2. Morag
3. Lorna
4. Mary
5. Correct answer: Isa

3. Which of these is NOT a spin-off?

The Fenn Street Gang came from Please Sir!. Robin's Nest followed Man About The House. Bootsie And Snudge's characters began in The Army Game and Grace & Favour featured the team from Are You Being Served?. Oh Brother! did have its own spin-off though... Oh, Father!.

1. The Fenn Street Gang
2. Robin's Nest
3. Correct answer: Oh Brother!
4. Bootsie And Snudge
5. Grace & Favour

4. What was being promoted in the Baldy Man (Gregor Fisher) photo booth advert?

1. Brylcreem
2. Correct answer: Hamlet cigars
3. B&H Gold cigarettes
4. Gillette razor blades
5. Pepsodent toothpaste

5. Who sang the comedy song My Boomerang Won't Come Back?

1. Bill Kerr
2. Rolf Harris
3. Correct answer: Charlie Drake
4. Tommy Cooper
5. Jasper Carrott

6. Who was Hattie Jacques married to?

1. Tony Hancock
2. Sid James
3. Bill Kerr
4. Correct answer: John Le Mesurier
5. Hugh Lloyd

7. Which of these actors NEVER appeared in a Carry On film? Their scenes were cut.

Penelope Keith played a nurse in Carry On Doctor, but she didn't make the final cut.

1. Gerald Campion
2. Sheila Hancock
3. Correct answer: Penelope Keith
4. Shirley Eaton
5. Ian Lavender

8. Who took over the Tommy Cooper part in the 1979 TV version of The Plank?

1. Correct answer: Arthur Lowe
2. Harry H. Corbett
3. Bernard Cribbins
4. Deryck Guyler
5. Frankie Howerd

9. Who played demented sleazy rock star Grizzo, in Jack Dee's Bad Move?

1. Miles Jupp
2. James Acaster
3. Ed Gamble
4. Correct answer: Seann Walsh
5. Russell Howard

10. In Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience, he had to have a tattoo before he was allowed to tackle one himself on somebody - what tattoo did he have on his shoulder?

1. Flying pig in a parachute
2. Correct answer: Flaming battenberg
3. "If I'm lost, please call [and his mobile number]"
4. Set of false teeth, with one tooth missing
5. Welsh leek, leaking blood

Bonus cryptic question

Feeling brainy? BCG's Ian Wolf likes devising additional, obfuscated brain-teasers as an extra challenge. See if you can work this one out. You'll find the answer in the next quiz.

Which colourful comedies was the first spread, the second witness to a weaponised duo going into the law, the third seeing death at a school, and the fourth taking a group to the Balearic Islands.

Last week's cryptic question

SIXTY-six, FIFTY-seven, SEVEN / FORTY-two, EIGHTY-eight, SEVEN – who do you get when you swap these for letters?

See the answer

The numbers refer to the atomic numbers of elements, with the numbers in block capitals being the first letter of the element's symbol, and lowercase words the second letter.
The elements in question, 66, 57, 7 / 42, 88, 7, give you respectively the numbers for dysprosium, lanthanum, nitrogen / molybdenum, radium and nitrogen again. Replace the numbers with the symbols and you spell out the name:

DyLaN MoRaN